Comment on Signal details costs of keeping its private messaging service alive | TechCrunch
Vincent@kbin.social 11 months agoSignal had 40 million active users in 2021. With 14 million in infra cost, that comes to .35 per user/year. Total expenses are about 33 million, so about .825 per user/year. All in all that seems very reasonable.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38291950
So it should be pretty easy to cover your own costs and maybe that of a couple of friends to make the transaction fees worth it :)
milkytoast@kbin.social 11 months ago
so $1 a year would cover it? might as well covery whole family at that point. think I can afford $5 a year lol
Vincent@kbin.social 11 months ago
Haha exactly, by that calculation $1 a year would cover you and two others. Get that family onboard :)
catacomb@beehaw.org 11 months ago
Funny, that’s in line with the $1 a year WhatsApp was going to charge.
Sounds like just $5 will pay for me and 4 others, so that’s nice.